Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel .
2 It was impossible to be afraid ; but impossible not to be alert , alive , crisp in every sensation , glad in the headlong abundance of reviving life that washed about them on every side .
3 It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining .
4 That goes for everyone on the mainland as well .
5 Under communism there would be no exploitation , and society would be run by and for everyone on the basis of equality and community .
6 ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same .
7 The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped .
8 ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’
9 Large transient hotels very often enter into agreements with certain airlines or travel agents whereby they will hold a number of rooms specifically for them on a guarantee basis .
10 In the long term , some of the earlier buyers will want to sell their timeshares , and the management company may undertake to do this for them on an agency basis , thus earning additional commission .
11 Their captain 's making it difficult for them on the blower
12 is it but you see you could er pay for them on the ferry then
13 Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i .
14 The spiritual area is concerned with the awareness a person has of those elements in existence and experience which may be defined in terms of inner feelings and beliefs ; they affect the way people see themselves and throw light for them on the purpose and meaning of life itself .
15 Gould offered an enormous sum for them on the spot .
16 Performance of that order behind a BMW badge could shake a few prejudices , but these high-fliers may not be available in right-hand drive form until next year because of the demand for them on the Continent .
17 Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time .
18 In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round .
19 The idea was that the private sector would build and finance a number of roads and the department would pay a rent for them on the basis of how much traffic used them .
20 If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is .
21 And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night .
22 and sell packaging film , covering 700 miles a week between them on the customer round .
23 Look up such excellent works as J. Rachman and Clare Philips ' Psychology and Medicine ( Temple Smith ) or Richard Totman 's Social Causes of Illness ( Souvenir ) and you will find a total of 14 words between them on the subject .
24 Ranulf the rat-catcher , Simon the tiler , and a host of others thronged the nave , sitting facing each other on the church 's two and only benches with Athelstan sitting between them on the sanctuary chair .
25 This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market .
26 This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) .
27 He poured her another glass of wine from the carafe which stood between them on the table .
28 ‘ When the lawsuit was beginning , before he could possibly have known about it , he wrote this down for me on a bit of paper . ’
29 driver for me on the phone , so he calls me up , oh we 've got load of them he said
30 ‘ I think I will ride pillion on the way out , but I reckon it 'll be the sidecar for me on the way back . ’
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